Moles in my yard

trooperchin

ive got a bit of a mole problem in my yard... Anyone know of any ideas on how to get rid of em?

Ps: Guns cant be used

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pikeal1

pellet gun...get yourself a good, powerful pellet gun.

also...Aguila makes some ammo for a .22 that fires with the preassure of the primer only...supposed to make noise similar to that of an air gun. might want to look at that...or get yourself a pest control person to come and get rid of them for you.

Edited by - pikeal1 on 06/18/2002 16:03:41

trooperchin

Hmmmm since i live on about 3/5ths of an acre and im only about 50 feet from the neighbors.....guns sound great

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4GodandCountry

Go to any decent farmers supply store and buy some mole guetines. Find there little tunnels and place the traps in the tunnel paths. When the go through the trap it will go off and decappitate the little buggers.

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CAndres35

the only thing i found that would chase them away was to open there tunnels and dump some mothballs in the tunnel. this wont kill them but will chase them over to the neighbors yard. carl

muley

Go down and buy yourself a Dacthsund.(sp) Ours spends all her time hunting the little varmints. Of course, she does more damage then the moles, but it keeps her off the streets.

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trooperchin

Ok dachsounds my grandparents have one. Ill see if it can come ovedr fer a week!

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n/a

Hey Trooperchin..
Here is a site that tells you how to control them using castor oil.. its a bit far down the page ..

http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/wildlife/g1288.htm

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RugerNiner

Watch Caddy Shack. That should give you some Ideas.

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Ronald J. Snow

Have three acres that were infested with moles about four years ago. Took a 12 gauge and a 20 gauge fired shotshell, removed the primer from the 20 and epoxied a length of cannon fuse through the primer pocket; you might have to drill out the pocket a mite. Fill the 20 gauge shell with Pyrodex "P" and slide the 12 gauge shell down over the 20. Now tape them together with duct tape, the more the better. Slide the shell down the offending burrow leaving a bit of fuse exposed. Tamp it all down, light the fuse and stand back a ways; no more mole. If think the fumes get them more than the rapid burning of the powder. You will want to have a garden hose handy if the ground or grass are dry. I have never had to repeat the process.

crisisbill

Very simple, go to the drug store and pick up some Exlax and drop some in the tunnels, they eat the stuff and "poop " their brains out.
It's too much on their system and they die of dyhydration.
It really does work and no fear of having your pet cat eatting a dead mole that you used poison on.
I had a buddy that worked on a 9 hole golf course and thats all they ever used.

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simonbs

I like Ronald's idea

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gruntled

Several years ago a local radio station had a contest to give away a 16 ton block of granite to the person who could come up with the best use for it.
Winner wanted it to bounce on their yard to kill moles.

offeror

You're options are limited if you have any pets that run in the yard, but if you don't, you can try putting rat poison in the crack along the foundation of your house, where the grass meets the concrete. They often like to burrow along there.

I had a mole problem one time and the most effective tool turned out to be the back yard in-ground swimming pool. They'd jump in, swim around and find no way out, and get tired and drown in the skimmer. I couldn't even count the number of dead moles I disposed of out of the skimmer basket.

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woodsrunner

If you really want to get rid of them, you have to get rid of what's attracting them. You probably have grubs (japanese beetle larvae) in your lawn. Get rid of those and the moles will go away on thier own. This also applies to those that live out in the sticks and have skunks digging up thier yard. You can also get a castor bean plant and it will repell them. This solution shouldn't be used by people with young children because the beans are poisonous. The traps work well. Also sometimes you can catch them with mouse traps baited with peanut butter.At least that last trick worked when I studied field biology.

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How big a boy are ya?

barto

get two 2x4's approx. 1 ft. long; label them block "a" & block "b".
place offending rodent on block"a" and strike sharply with block"b".
guaranteed!! (also works on insects & other small rodents).
barto

the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer

JustC

This going to sound rediculous but many of my neighbors have had success with it. Get some Juicy fruit gum, yep you heard me right, and tear each piece into several smaller peices, then simply push them down into the tunnels. they will eat it and die. Some sort of ingredient in that flavor that works on them very well. I know it sounds funny, but,.........

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offeror

woodsrunner's idea sounds worthwhile to me. It couldn't hurt to remove a food source. If it were me, I'd be willing to try putting down a good pesticide to kill the insects on my lawn (just keep the pets off the lawn for at least a day, maybe two). You might find the moles migrating to the neighbors'... not a very neighborly thing to do, but.... I had such good luck with the pool that I'd probably (and I don't expect you to do this) try putting in one of those decorative pools. I'd pick one out at Home Depot or someplace that was going to be deep enough that they couldn't stand in the water and had several inches of vertical, smooth plastic above the water line so they couldn't climb out. Then install somewhere on your lawn and keep the water at the appropriate level. This would assure (hopefully and/or theoretically) that any varmint falling into the water while trying to drink would swim around until it got tired and drowned, giving me the same effect as the swimming pool trick on a small scale. Moles are notoriously hard to get rid of, or I wouldn't bother even mentioning such a, shall we say, unorthodox idea. All I can say is, I did have a lot of drowned varmints when I had my pool.

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jo-dan

Hey Chin,
The castor really works quite well; it usually comes in a sprayer
that connects to your garden hose each bottle is about $12 and
covers several thousand square feet. They were tearin up my yard
real bad (for years) till I sprayed the castor oil in the grass
and now they're gone.
good luck
jo

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